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re: No one cares about college football anymore
Posted on 12/19/18 at 12:45 pm to jptiger2009
Posted on 12/19/18 at 12:45 pm to jptiger2009
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My boy will never play football while his brain is developing. I just don't think the risk is worth it when he has his entire life to live. If he happens to be an extraordinary athlete while playing other sports like basketball, soccer, or baseball
Actually there are studies that show soccer has and even higher rate of concussions than football. Baseball, all it takes is one line drive, in a game or practice (one) and your child may never be right again. Basketball, well I am not sure about it.
The point is nothing is without risks. Football at a very young age I doubt has any problems with concussions (they just are not big enough to hit that hard), and most players start playing football in high school anyway.
Posted on 12/19/18 at 1:14 pm to TideFaninFl
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Actually there are studies that show soccer has and even higher rate of concussions than football. Baseball, all it takes is one line drive, in a game or practice (one) and your child may never be right again. Basketball, well I am not sure about it.
The point is nothing is without risks. Football at a very young age I doubt has any problems with concussions (they just are not big enough to hit that hard), and most players start playing football in high school anyway.
No sport has a zero probability of being permanently and/or seriously injured, but that doesn't mean the probability is equal for all sports. Sure, you could get hit with a line drive in face while playing baseball, but the probability of that happening in your lifetime is small even for people who play professional baseball for 10+ years. It's orders of magnitude less probable than football players developing CTE and other brain injuries/diseases. Play football long enough and developing CTE almost becomes a certainty. And it doesn't take decades for CTE to develop. There are high school football players who have developed CTE.
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